Show I FLYERS RISKING LIVES IN TESTS Army Arms Aviators Add Safe Safe- Safety Safety I ty Measures By Their Experiments DAYTON l 0 Sept By 26 By The Associated Press Tho Press Tho unknown Quantity Is la the tb big hie thing thine at Mc- Mc Cook Mc-Cook C ol field And airplane crack crack- crackups crackups ups crack ups while not exactly courted are more or Ie less Jew expected McCook field Is the tho experimental field for the United States Army All Air Corps and all hips aro given ghen thorough tests test before they hey are ar adopted for tor general use It Is the work or of o the McCook field test those pilots pilots those who have crashed to their deaths as E II H Barksdale did recently and those who hate bar survived d through miracles that near that has made mad pos poe possible pos sible the th safety with which mall planes and commercial aircraft now skim the th skies A new ship Is I built A pilot Is assigned to take tak It up And when he be does he h never ne knows how he will return to earth for tor a new ship is an n unknown quantity The x of or algebra days day never figures more largely than it does In a test flight at McCook field The Th Arm Army Air All Corps picks the cream ot or Its fliers filers for tor these jobs It is not so much a question of risking the lives ot or Its It best beat men as asor or of having for test pilots men who understand the th ships and will know what the tho trouble la 1 I who will be beable beable beable able after the th crash If It they pull to through to tell expertly and with with- without without out hesitation what It was that caused the crash The pilots only protection against the tho unknown quantity Is his para para- parachute parachute parachute chute which he h wears wear strapped to him This comparatively flimsy bit bitor bitof bitof or of silk Is his sole sol protection and through tests at McCook field they have been perfected to a point where they rare rarely rarely- I tall rail And every pilot killed at McCook field adds to the th measure of o safety which at- at attends at attends tends aviation today I |